448 М’. THALBITZER. 
аа (ilimagime ;) tiwätune ogarpon‘ makergiyätiwa makip'oa 
ta ma'siarmat umid kip'ip'ut «m'a ituane tiwäqitune Ard'tuaq одагроп 
makirqinåtSuva makip'oa®? umiä amertakat at kinularput kisiän umiät 
nevtagun e:lorterarter so'ane arnaq aqiwane (agiagin) аут e:lorterarter 
tamamat kinuner ajorpun 
* AG)? WGr. isiwoq (Kleinschmidt р. 109 = iserpog) ‘behaves or becomes 
so or So. 
[35] No. 228. Orssuiaq, the Blubber-stone. 
Kunnan AX. Attiartertoq BY. 
A legend about a troll or stranger who had in his house a peculiar 
kind of stone as his wife. The name of the stone, Orssuiaq, (from orsoq, blub- 
ber) designates a white shining stone, a kind of feldspar. Judging by A, this 
seems to be a myth of origin, which explains the appearance of the fish 
whose mouth looks as if it was always singing, and whose name perhaps 
A. 
sagirawat a lerpoq sagirawat a‘ lerpoq ite erlersiarpa’ pujortuätsia'ie 
iseia'me pergitararteia‘me ® o'nargita’le saiane negertiwokaje: nuna- 
ka''tsiain (orsuiaq) nelerpa tatuma пе‘дапиий ® ne’lera’ria'me ne''ria'me 
kilimun in-aiarpon™) ада?пе (lagawana) isertopaliarter ise‘ia:me peqi- 
to:riarte‘iame ase’na ogarpataniarsiarter™ erneratajiwin ila-'jiän na’k 
ase®na nulianilokajia pulartaiwin ne'råik:a © ата pulartaik kilimun 
ulicer sumaip:on © sagimertine ne”qata'ria”siarte saq:imeiarpon зад-йте“- 
iame neqatelerpa’ nelere‘‘riame ® gané tasäk’oa ogap'äk'arat toqüt- 
isttutin ogap'äk'arat e kitiwa-gilerpgrma kitiwa'r kit:iwa'rtamitagin 
(10) nulidne nalerme nak:arteia me: 
ane'a win uniatsan ik'in kakatsia ma: rin 
isitamun nak-arleiarmane parpât ätiwa nak-arteiar|—|"" natarnån'er- 
tune awam'un а’ аЁагроп“? 
(13) 
’ nam'ineq in'aqa wagin awanvun nak’ar- 
ke ta‘me “AL 
aja ere ja: je 
awam'un ivnertune atarketarpon ара ата i”yPin ian er- 
Моте$. — * Similar legends or fables explaining the origin of seals and 
birds have been collected in South Greenland by Lytzen (1874). See p. 209. 
*(14) jwn-iniwaq, “a deep-sea fish, 3 or 4 feet long with a narrow tail, great 
spiked scales, very great eyes and a snout as that of a shark” (Kleinschmidt, 
р. 106 im'in:uaq). Its mouth looks as if it sings, said Kunnap. Its name seems 
to mean ‘the little singer’ (< i”yn-erpog = SEGr. im:erpog). According to О. Fa- 
bricius (ingmingoak, in the Ordbog 1804, cf. his Fauna Groenl. 1780, р. 154) 
it was known only from the southernmost Greenland fjords, but later it has 
